Ghostery extension for Firefox

[Brighton Rock]

I seem to be having a problem today with the Ghostery extension to
Firefox. On 2 separate Win 10 machines Firefox 65.0.2 (x64) closes after
a few seconds when Ghostery is enabled but runs perfectly happily
without it, or with it disabled. It was OK yesterday. Just me or are
others seeing this?
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Michael

[Brighton Rock]

On 15/03/2019 14:34, Hartdonor wrote:

> Works for me. Firefox 65.0.2. Ghostery 8.3.1.
>
> Maybe another extension is conflicting?
>
Thanks. No, I don't think it is that, problem occurs with only Ghostery
enabled. I'll try and live without it!

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Michael

[Brighton Rock]

Ha! I put Ghostery back on to check your theory, got problems, and sent
my previous post. Looking further at all this after I posted, I see that
my system is reporting version 8.4.140; I think that the later version
may be significant.

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Michael

[Brighton Rock]

Sorry. Some days I should just switch off my PC! No, I don't have 8.4, I
have the same version as you: 8.3.1

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Michael

[custom.firefox.lady]

See:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535589
and
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=225975.0

[Brighton Rock]

Thanks. As you may have guessed, there are a couple of posts of mine in
the Avast thread. But I don't think that anything that I have seen
explains what changed but Ghostery is running perfectly happily here now.

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Michael

[Brighton Rock]

On 16/03/2019 18:49, Hartdonor wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 13:44:39 -0500, in mozilla.support.firefox, Hartdonor
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:57:56 +0000, in mozilla.support.firefox, Brighton

>> Rock wrote:
>>
>>> On 15/03/2019 14:55, Brighton Rock wrote:
>>>> On 15/03/2019 14:46, Brighton Rock wrote:
>>>>> On 15/03/2019 14:34, Hartdonor wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 13:44:34 +0000, in mozilla.support.firefox, Brighton
>>>>>> Rock wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I seem to be having a problem today with the Ghostery extension to
>>>>>>> Firefox. On 2 separate Win 10 machines Firefox 65.0.2 (x64) closes
>>>>>>> after
>>>>>>> a few seconds when Ghostery is enabled but runs perfectly happily
>>>>>>> without it, or with it disabled. It was OK yesterday. Just me or are
>>>>>>> others seeing this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Works for me. Firefox 65.0.2. Ghostery 8.3.1.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe another extension is conflicting?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks. No, I don't think it is that, problem occurs with only
>>>>> Ghostery enabled. I'll try and live without it!
>>>>>
>>>> Ha! I put Ghostery back on to check your theory, got problems, and sent
>>>> my previous post. Looking further at all this after I posted, I see that
>>>> my system is reporting version 8.4.140; I think that the later version
>>>> may be significant.
>>>>
>>> Sorry. Some days I should just switch off my PC! No, I don't have 8.4, I
>>> have the same version as you: 8.3.1
>>

>> Dunno. I'm using Windows 10 1809.
>>
>> Also, I had to whitelist "account.ghostery.com" in my cookies to make it
>> work right. I got that trick from support because I ban all third-party
>> cookies. Ghostery was the only thing it actually broke.
>>
>> AFAIK, Ghostery still doesn't work with Firefox's "first-party isolation"
>> enabled, so if you used that niche security feature (I did, and had to
>> set it back to the default of "off"), you'd need to turn it off.
>>
>> That's all I got. Good luck to you.
>
> Type "firstparty" into the search box in about:config to see the
> first-party isolation variables. If they're bold, you can set them back
> to the defaults.
>
Thanks for your help. Those variables are (at least now) set to their
defaults.
I don't think that anything that I have seen on various other threads

explains what changed but Ghostery is running perfectly happily here

now. I'm putting it down as one of those amusing little episodes that
are such a joy when using computers!

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Michael